Thompson: Multics was a horrible platypus!
Kenneth Lane Thompson, winner of the Association for Computing Machinery's A.M. Turing Award, discusses the Multics project to build an ambitious timesharing operating system. Thompson worked on the project as a programmer early in his career at Bell Labs, which was developing the system jointly with MIT and General Electric. This clip is taken from an interview conducted with Thompson by David Brock for the ACM and Computer History Museum on March 6, 2024 which is distributed here by permission of the Computer History Museum. Video of the full interview is available as part of Thompson’s ACM profile at https://amturing.acm.org/interviews/t....